Where do they learn these things?

This weekend Slade went to his mom’s and Ben was gone working most of the weekend so Madie and I had a lot of alone time. We made our first ever trip to Kings (a local discount that seems a lot like a Family Dollar). It happens to be Slade’s favorite store – he always wants to go there… I don’t see the excitement in it really. The we went home and I worked on our flower beds a bit. Then we took a break for lunch and I put Madie down for a nap and went back to my work outside. I went in and checked on her a couple of times and after about 2 hours she started to wake up a bit. So I was trying to clean things up outside before she got up and every couple of minutes I would poke my head in the house to see if she was crying. Nothing. So I finished and went in the house. We have a crib that has a changing table attached to it, she has outgrown the changing table so it now houses her stuffed animals and her baby monitor. I found her standing in her crib holding the baby monitor close to her mouth saying “Mama, Mama” into it. Seriously how does she know what that is for… Kids these days are just too smart!

I made it until 11 today

To do what you might ask… open my pepsi! Those of you that know me know that this is quite the accomplishment. In an effort to save some money and shed some pounds I am trying to give it up. Crazy I know but I am trying. So I am sitting here at my desk trying to ignore my urges to open that delicious beverage when I heard a loud Pop! It was my pepsi, literally calling out to me. The bottom of the can had popped out making it rounded. I had no choice but to open it. One of these days I will conquer it but not today!

Some of Madelyn's favorite things...

Climbing...


Cozying in her dolly bed...


Dancing...


Her rocking chair and a book...


Eating...


Sleeping...


Sometimes eating AND sleeping (notice the fork still in her hand)...


Her Brother Slade...

A sneak peak

We did it. We bought a house. We are so super excited. We bought a home in Rigby and will be closing on March 12. In the mean time I have been busy decorating it in my head (and on my sewing machine) and Ben has been working on the plans for the bunk beds that he is going to build for Slade. I have been talking a lot about how excited I am to do Madie's room. Well I have her bedding made and I just finished recovering a little rocking chair for her room. So I thought that I would give you a sneak peak at Madie's room.


I am super excited to see it all finished. I love this little chair, it was mine when I was little.

I am still searching for inspiration for Slade's room, let me know if you see anything!

You would think we were starving her

You might think that by looking at Madie that she is not a good eater. However after seeing her eat you would probably think we are not giving her enough to eat.



And this was her second plate... she does this with every meal. If you look close enough you can see a noodle stuck up her nose. So cute!

When the lights go out

Last night we had a power outage. We were right in the middle of dinner when it went out. Little Madie, totally unaffected, just kept shoveling her Mac-n-cheese into her mouth and Slade freaked out! Thanks to his mother who thought it was a good idea to take him to see New Moon he was scared that vampires and werewolves were going to come get us. Then he ran to the TV (which we had explained to him wouldn’t work) and freaked out again saying “oh no now we have to buy a new TV too”. It was a very traumatic night!
So when it was closing in on bedtime and our spotlight was losing battery power we decided to put the kids in their PJ’s and go for a little drive so we could charge the spotlight and hopefully calm Slade down. We drove up by the temple, which was dimly lit from their generator power. Ben and I were talking about how weird it was to see the temple not lit and Slade says “It still looks pretty though”. It was so sweet to hear the love that he has for the temple in his little guy testimony. We drove around a little while longer until he had dozed off and then headed for home. When we got there the power was still off so we lit a few candles and all 4 of us crawled into our bed (again, I am so grateful for a king sized bed). Slade again started telling Ben that he was scared and then said “we better call Jesus”. I am so grateful that he knows that when he is scared or needs help that he can turn to his Savior and get the help that he needs.
I am grateful for the blessing that we received last night of no power, to put aside the things of the world and be able to see and hear what we needed to hear. I am also grateful that our Heavenly Father sends us these amazing little spirits to teach us and to help us remember what is really important.

Will you tell your sister a story?

Madie is sick... again. She has yet another ear infection and we were informed that she is well on her way to needing to get tubes. Tonight the poor little lady was just miserable. She had a fever and was just not happy. I layed her on my lap and we put ear drops in her ear and then Ben got a cool, wet washcloth to put on her head. She was not happy with that and was throwing a little fit. Of course big brother came to the rescue and wanted to help. I asked him to tell her a little story to make her feel better. This is what we got...

"Transformers transform into cars."

He then told her that she looked like the flying Dutchman (someone watches to much spongebob) and went back to his playing. It was pretty funny and it actually calmed her down a bit. So if you are in need of a good story you know where to